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WHOLE NO. 172
Thirty Reasons for the PrOhibi-
tiOn of the Traffic I'm IntOx.
iCnting Liquors.

AcutAhS Liquors.
l. They deprive men of their reason
for the time being,
2. They destroy men of the greatest
intellectual strength,
3, They foster and encourage every
species of immortality.
4. They bar the progress of civil.
zation and religion.
3. They destroy the peace and hap
piness Of tens ofthousands of families.
6. They reduce many virtuous
wives and children to beggary.
z They cause many thousands of
murders
8, They prevent all reformation of
character,
8. They render abortive the strong
est resolutions,
10. The millions of property expen-
ded in them are lots.
II. They cause the majority OF cases
of insanity.
u. They destroy both the body and
the soul.
13. They burden sober people with
millions for the support of paupers.
IA. They cause immense expendi-
lures to prevent crime.
10. They cost sober people immense
sums in charity
16. They burden the country with
enormous taxes.
II, Because moderate drinkers want
the temptation removed.
Is. Drunkards want the opportunity
removed.
10. Sober people want the nuisance
removed.
20. Taxpayers want the burden re-
moved.
q. The prohibition would save
OlouSdllus now lalllng.
%. The sale exposes our families to
destruction.
%. The sale exposes our persons to
insult.
"A. The sale upholds the vicious and
idle at the expense of the industrious
and virtuous.
20. The sale subjects the sober to
great oppression.
26. 1t takes the sober mans earnings
to support the drunkard.
p. Itsubjects numberless wives to
untold suferings.
2S. 1t is contrary to the Bible.
80. 1t is contrary to common sense.
80. We have a right to rid ourselves
Of the burden.
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Am End TO Bone Scraping.

Edward Shepherd, of Harrisburg,
H., says Having received so much
benefit from Electric Bitters, | feel it
my duty to let suffering humanity
know it, Have had running sore
ON my leg for eight years; my doctors
told me | would have to have the
bone scraped orleg amputated. fused,
instead, three bottles of Electric Bitters
and seven boxes Bucklen's Arnica
Salve, and my leg is now sound and
we'll"
Electric Bitters are sold at fifty
cents a bottle and Bucklen's Arnica
Salve at 25c. per box by Mcfarland.
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The Magnetic Line.

1t is very gratifying to talk with
Gen. Butler, and to know that he CON
siders the e'early building of our end
of the 3C's an assured thing. On
Monday he left Edgefeld, and his
headquarters will be at Washington
until the 22nd inst. On that day the
Sos people will hold meeting in
New York city, to ratify the articles OF
consolidation agreed to by the Georgia
and Carolina Midland on the 1st OF
June ultimo. He will be present at
this meeting and thinks that soon af-
terwards work will be commenced. In
this connection we will state, that on
his last visit to New York, Gen. But
Ter met Schofeld, of Cum berland GAP
fame, and says that he, Schofeld
seemed absolutely sure Of building his
road. and was going again to Europe
in that interest. That he had spent
a large amount of his own private
funds, and would not now give up the
scheme-Edgefeld, S. G. Advertiser.
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The beginning Ofthe End.

The beginning of disease is slight debility
or disorder of some of the vital organs, the
stomach the liver or the bowels usually.
There are dyspeptie symptoms, the liver is
troublesome, the skin grows tawney and un-
healthy looking there are pains in the right
side or through the right shoulder blade. The
climax is often an utter prostration of the
physical energies, perhaps a fatal ISSUE But
If the difficulty is met in time with Hostetter's
stomach Bitters which is always effective as a
remedy, and il should be resorted to at an early
stage, there will be no reason to apprehend
those injurious subsequent effects upon the
system often entailed by entirely cured dis
eases. Far better is it, also, to employ this safe
remedial agent in fever and ague, and other
malarial complaints, than quinine and other
ptaent drugs, which, even when they do prove
efIeetual for time, ruin the stomach and i'm
pair the general health
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Mrs. Langtry has been notified by
Justice Field, of California, that be-
fore she is naturalized she must APP
pear in court in person and take the
required oath. All her previous work
has been done by proxy.
Captain Sam s. Brown, owner of
the great race horse Troubadour re-
ports Troubadour badly crippled and
liable to break down at any time. He
says he will be retired to the stud at
the end of the season.
Young Man.-"Is Miss Brown al
homer"
Maid.-"Yes, but she is engaged"
Y. M.-"Well, I'm what she is en-.
gagged to. | would like to see her
please"
Wilson, charged with the murder o
his wife at Auburn, N. Y, has beer
convicted and sentenced to be hanged
Sept. 9.
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FORAKER RAKED OVER.
Well what obont Forokor9u

The high art craze which Induced
lot of the fashionable young ladies of
Boston recently to sit for photographs
in costume that was fashionable in
the Garden of Eden before the Fall
seems to have spread in the modern
Athens. A lot of South Boston young
women, fRd with the idea that they
were just as pretty as their blue-blood-
ed sisters on Commonwealth avenue,
have been photographed as nymphs,
goddesses and mermaids. Those who
have been favored with a sight of this
last assortment of modern goddesses
are of the opinion that the Boston girl
does not suffer by comparison with
the ancient Greek standards. I'm
fortunately for the photographer and
his patrons, the laws of Massachusetts,
were not framed in the interest of a
return to the severely classical in art,
and the former has been compelled to
give bail to answer charge of making
and selling indecent pictures. The
photographs are in the hands of the
police and several South Boston
young women are in mortal dread
lest the newspapers publish the names
that fit the pictures. 1t will probably
be better for Boston young ladies to be
content with the modern styles of
draping their pretty persons. These
styles admit quite sufficient expos
ure.-PhiIadeIphia Times.
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Good Results i'm Every Case.

d. A. Bradford, wholesale paper
dealer of Chattanooga, Tenn, writes,
that he was seriously afflicted with a
severe cold that settled on his lungs
had tried many remedies without ben
eft. Being induced to try DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, did
SO and was entirely cured by use of a
few bottles. Since which time he has
used it in his family for all Coughs and
Colds with good results. Thisis the ex-
perience OF thousands whose lives have
been saved by this Wonderful Discov.
cry. Trial Bottles free at McFarland''
Drug Store.
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George Gould is now getting the
credit for having put up the job that
squeezed Cyrus w. Field out Of his
Manhattan stock in revenge for a
slight put upon his pretty wife
when she was Miss Edith Kingdom.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-07-28

Speaker Carlisle's daughter is said
to be the prettiest girl at the Green
brier Sulphur Springs,
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serve them for policy through one
more campaign anyhow Two such
questions stoutly maintained cannot
fail to produce a great deal Of feeling"
Where do you think the advantage
will lie?"
"On the whole, with the democrats
| think. There is not, in my judg-
ment, another republican President
wrapped in the folds OF the bloody
shirt. The republican complaint
touching the negro vote in the South
would be more tenable and would
drive deeper if the republicans could
and did offer some practical remedy,
and it would come with better grace if
they themselves were not the authors
of the evils complained of. That these
evils are very serious no honest men
who knows.the facts will deny. But
when the republicans had things all
their own way they were even worse.
You see, it still makes difference
whose OK is gored. The truth is that
republicans have been required to
take dose of their own medicine,
and they like it no better than the
South did when the South, bound
hand and, d,foot, had its mouth torn open
and the decoction poured down its
throat" :"
"What do you consider the true
policy and remedy"
LET THE BLOODY SHIRT GO.
"God and nature, the influence of
time and circumstance and the
operation of educational and moral
forces-if these do not suffice, nothing
will. We have tried radical legislation,
backed by the bayonet and martial
law. The fabric hostile to the genius
of our institutions and national char
acter fell Of its own weight and rot
tenness. The clamor of the repub-
licans, Leo by Senator John Sherman,
means nothing if it does not contem-
plate some return to the old, abandon
ed scheme of reconstruction. Other
wise the outcry is sheer incendiarism,
designed to get the people by the. ears
and keep the sections apart. tits too
late to dos In this case the pro-
verbal two who are needed to make a
quarrel do not exist. There is no
party or class at the South answer
ing the description or antagonizing
the propositions OF the red republicans.
The South, having had its bellyful of
blood, has gotten taste of money,
and its too busy trying to make money
to quarrel with anybody, But as
long as the red republicans insist on
keeping this black issue at the front
the South will vote solidly. 1t dare not
do otherwise, and the situation would
be nowise changed if every white man
now living III the South were removed
and replaced by a Massachusetts re-
publican. In the face of that vast
H.
black mass of ignorant and irrespon-
sible voters, organized from without
and having within no public opinion
of its own, the issue becomes one OF
self-preservation. and society must
and will find some means to protect
itself l do not believe the North can
be marshalled on policy designed to
handcuff tho South and return it to
the horrible conditions of fifteen and
twenty years ago.
"But the battle flag incident disclos,
ed the spirit and purpose Of the red
republican leaders to fire the North.
ern heart and unite it on a sectional
raid, under cover of which the business
of the people shall stand still, while
the pension lobby and the tariff ant
all the other lobbies get in theil
work on the Treasury"
REAL LIVE ISSUE.
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greater evils than the surplus, evil as
that is. The upas tree which bore ii
the tarfl-wil be, until it is cut
down, an ever living source of every
kind of fiscal corruption and economic
abuse, and we should not lose sight ot
the tree while stripping it of its rotten
fruit"
"But Mr.. Randall?"
"Mr. Randall should be given his
just measure-no more and no less
He has no power except what his
party in the House allows him
Hitherto he has figured chiefly as an
obstructionist. We shall see, when
the issue is fairly made, whether he is
democrat, as he claims to be, OF
merely a republican masquerading as
a democrat, and kept in Congress by
the republicans ior purposes of their
own"
LABoR's UNKNOWN MIGHT.
"What of the labor movement and
its bearing on the Presidential elec-
tion?"
"No man can say precisely. If all
the labor elements could be united
themovement would be most formid
able. As it is, thoughtful men must
see in 1t the germs of new force
which cannot be left out of the ac.
count of the future by the political
managers. My impression is that it
cannot be united in the next Presi.
dental election and that the press oil
New York are giving it disproportinate
Importance in its national bearings
1t is as yet chiefly a local question
maintained by Mr.. George and
McGlynn with exceeding ingenuity
pluck and brilliancy."
FORAKER RAKED OVER.
"Well, what about Foraker?"
ooh, Foraker, fddlesticks He is
sort OF Cheap John Jefferson Davis
with all Mr.. Davis guarded garrulity
and rash impetuosity, but without
any of Mr. Davis accomplishment.
and sincerity"
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A REAL LIVE ISSUE.

What about the tariff"
"The democratic party has thus far
failed to REDEEM its pledge to reduce
the taxes and reform the tariff. 1t
has failed besause a corporal's guard
of democrats in Congress, acting with
the republicans, have interdicted the
consideration of any measure to that
end. The administration must now
in its own defence, and | think it will,
frame tariff reform bill which will
carry with it all the weight of the
organization and pledges, and become
in Congress the test of who are true
and who are false"
"But can you pass such a bill ?"
"That remains to be seen. II we dc
not it will be no fault of ours, and we
can and will on the issue thus Joined
appeal to the people. The bill so re-
jected will then become the democrat.
ic platform for the ensuing campaign
"The next National Democratic
Convention can in this way alone be
saved from a split on the tariff, foi
never again can the party assembled
in national Convention come to al
agreement upon tariff plank. Tha
reached at Chicago was the last anC
it will remain the last, if the question
is not put outIof the way by Congress,
"And what of the surplus?"
at is very serious question.
we do not stop drawing so much blooC
, the patient will die. We must stop il
| and those who represent the democrat
; ; ic administration and the democrats
majority in Congress-and who ar
: not responsible for the plethora-ar
, willing to meet the republicans an,
/ the recalcitrant demoerats-who ar
? responsible for it-in a liberal an
: tolerant spirit. But there are eyel
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-25

The OVERLAND MONTHLY, San
FrancisO, has engaged General O.
o. Howard to furnish series Of
Indian War Papers and secured his
exclusive services. Senator A. a.
Sargent will shortly furnish the
Overland Aoafhly several articles
upon topics Of public and industrial
interest. lie also IS en- gagged to
write exclusively for the Overland
Monthly.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-25

Tho Beautiful Surroundings or ~
mmnOIin.

M&ABD4Ans
Mr.. EDIToR: Standing at the |
foot Of that noble pile Of buildings,
on the Government Farm, known
as the Government Hospital. and
looking cltyward, the view is surpas-
singly grand. The grounds Just
around the Hospital are cut into
terraces with mathematical precision
we'll clothed in grass and studded
with shade trees, below is the grass
embossed lawn, which falls in gradu-
al unduIations to the shores of the
winding College Greek, whose
shores are clothed with yerdurc to
the waters edge, leaving but mar
row ribbon of brown sand, for the
tapping waves to beat upon.
This Greek is spanned by the
government bridge, near the out
flow to the Severn river, and is used
by the Naval authorities in their
goings, to and fro, to their hand
some and well shaded cemetery;
where men seem to be employed
most of the year in grading and
sodding, in roadbuilding and re-
pairing, in cutting out decaying
trees and keeping up their grounds
in the highest stage of neatness and
beauty. This bridge will also be
used by the travelling public, as it
connects with the county bridge
across the Severn river. On the
right of the Hospital grounds, the
Baltimore Short Line Railroad have
q bridge across this creek. Beyond
the creek are the high grass crowned
bluffs which appear fat from this
height, belonging to st. Johns Col
lege and once a favorite play
ground for its scholars. Still be-
yond is old st. Johns fanked on
either hand, with the dormitories
and the Professors, quarters, and
still beyond, is the City, spread ont
on each expanding and rest
ing upon her hills-with the spires
Of her Churches extending heaven
ward, supplicating the blessings for
her chfldren's Inheritance. On the
left are the buildings of the Naval
Academy, with the tall masted prac-
tice-ships, which are moored near by
on the Severn river. | looked upon
this veiw, which was spread out
beneath me, and thought, if so
beautiful now, what must it be
when the land is clothed with the
verdure of summer? This scene is
to me more beautiful than a sun
capped cloud or the shimmering
moonlight on low rippled sea.
On the north side of the Hospi-
tai are vineyards and orchards, with
rolling land, and farm houses cap
ping many of the hills, and in the
distance, azure-tinted waters. If
beauty could be heaped up, pressed
together and sold by the bushel
measure, there would be fortune
right here, but unluckily, it is
commodity that cannot be bartered
or consumed, and it is just as com.
mon as the air we breath.
Yours Truly,
r. |. p.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-25

KENTUCKY may be a great state
great for whiskey at any rate-but
far behind the spirit Of the age. A
white tramp was recently arrested,
tried before jury, convicted, and
ordered to be sold at public auction
to the highest bidder, for the period
of IS days. A red-hot republican,
who called our attention to the fact,
exclaimed, NO wonder Kentucky
is democratic.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-25

The New York Sun severely
arraigns President Cleveland for his
failure to redeem the pledges of the
platform upon which he was nominal
ted. Brother Dana has surely been
long enough in politics to know that
party pledges are but "glittering
generalities" and not intended to
hamper the freest action.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-25

The Presidents veto of the de-
pendent pension bill was sustained
yesterday by the House. All the
Maryland democratic delegation ex-
cept Mr.. Rusk voted to sustain the
President, and he would have done
so had he not been paired. Mr..
McComas voted for the bill.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-25

Ex-CoNGREsSMAN HEWITT, who
has recently been elected Mayor of
New York. is a man who holds de-
cided opinions and is not afraid to
express them. In speaking of the
despotism of the leaders in the labor
movement, he is reported as saying:
..This despotism is so complete
that during the late strikes the lea
ders even declared their purpose to
order a. universal strike, which
would have produced a general paral
ysis of business in this city and
elsewhere. / regard it as the mis-
sion of the Democratic party to pro-,
tect the inalienable right to the
workingman to dispose of his labor
in any way which seems to him
best. Upon this principle the
Democratic party secured power,
and when it fails to assert the
rights of personal independence its
mission will be ended. It is mis-
take therefore for the leaders of the
Democratic party anywhere to CO.
ouet with the leaders of the so-called
labor movement. The party should
boldly announce its determination
to break down all organizatio :
which seek to put shackles upon
the free labor of the country, and
particularly all secret political or
CARNATIONS, especially if they are
based upon the interest of par
ticular class of the community. 1t
would be just as Objectionable to be
ruled by an organization of laboring
men separated from the rest Of the
community as by combination of
bankers and railroad men. / re
gard it as q very critical time for
the Democratic party, aud / think
that every one who is in position
to influence public opinion should
take decided ground upon this
question, and declare himself
whether he is in favor of or opposed
to labor organizations seeking to
control the politics of the country
ii favor Of any one class Of its citi-
zens without regard to the rights
and interests Of all other parties.
So far as / have any influence inthe
Democratic party, / viii use it in
behalf of free labor, and Of
n,,sn nnlifical action. which may be
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-25
QuizziSm, and its Key.

Contains the explanation OF the origin
OF q thousand and-one common savings
and familiar quotations. 1t Il filed to
depletion with interesting matter" in
History. Literature, Geography, Science
and Biography. Now IN the Seventh
Edition.
rTlcs. .................$ 1.0Q.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-25

?. r. BARNUM, the great show
man, declines to run the risk OF
being made President, by declining
to be nominated by the Prohibition
party in 1888.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-25

The suppression of Mayor Hew-
tits letter to the Young Brooklyn
democrats is cxcitingly discussed
among New York politicians, and
is likely to lead to serious dissen-
sions among democrats.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-25

Mr.. Compton has secured an
extra evening session of Congress
on Saturday next, for the consider
alton Of resolutions relative to the
death of DR.. VIM. III. Cole who
represented the third congressional
district of this state.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-25

The recent earthquake in Europe
was not confined to Italian towns.
It was felt throughout southern Eu-
rope. Not less than two thousand
persons were killed and whole towns
in France and Italy were destroyed.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-25
Holiday Gifts.

If you think Of making a present of a
book to your wife or sweetheart. lover
or friend, you viii not find ANYTHING
more Instructive and an. using than the
two books:
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-25

THE hot water car heater is no go.
One attached to train of cars in
Illinois blew up the other day,
smashed windows and scalded the
passengers-and there was no acct
dent on the road either.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-25

The war furry in Europe has
again subsided, though several
powers still have bloodolh their eye.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-25
ANNAPOLIS
So TRANSFER COMPANY. So
Office, City Hotel, Main St
Rear Entrance, on Gloucester STREE.

Rear Entrance, on Gloucester Street.
Donble and Single Teams; also Saddle
Horses for hire, by the hour, day and
week. Fine Carriages for visiting parties
or pleasure, at reasonable rates. Orders
left at the Office in the City Hotel, at all
hours of the day or night, for passengers
for the cab or baggage, will receive
prompt attention.
"a Special attention giUen to Funerals
at short notice
Particular care given to transient hor-
ses and those on livery.
fSml ANNAPOLIS TRANSFER co.
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AS q manual OF curious and Interest
Ing Information, this book has no eoual.
publication. =
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-25

THE next Maryland State Agri-
cultural Fair will be at Easton,
Talbot county, in September.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-25

eW-This paper has the largest bona nae
III Annapolis.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-25

xy~Corrcspondcnce containing interesting
news solicited from every part Of the county
Kg-Address ali Letters and kilograms to
fhe EVENING CAPITAL.